{"id":661,"date":"2013-07-12T01:52:58","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T01:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joanhilty.net\/site\/?p=661"},"modified":"2014-05-29T18:53:08","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T18:53:08","slug":"gone-to-amerikay-in-best-american-comics-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joanhilty.net\/site\/?p=661","title":{"rendered":"Gone to Amerikay in Best American Comics 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/joanhilty.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/AmerikayPg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-662\" alt=\"AmerikayPg\" src=\"https:\/\/joanhilty.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/AmerikayPg.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joanhilty.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/AmerikayPg.jpg 600w, https:\/\/joanhilty.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/AmerikayPg-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m absolutely thrilled that <em>Gone to Amerikay<\/em> has <a href=\"http:\/\/dw-wp.com\/2013\/07\/best-american-comics-2013-table-of-contents\/\">made the cut<\/a> for Houghton Mifflin&#8217;s <em>Best American Comics<\/em> anthology this year. The only original work from DC or Marvel to do so, I might add.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d known Colleen Doran through the complex but tight community of women in mainstream comics for a while, and finally had the pleasure of working with her and Keith Giffen on <em>Reign of the Zodiac,<\/em> and when she brought this pitch to me and ordered me to read Derek McCulloch&#8217;s <em>Stagger Lee<\/em> (currently being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playbill.com\/news\/article\/159961-Stew-Heidi-Rodewald-Musical-Stagger-Lee-Will-Get-St-Louis-Reading\">adapted to the stage<\/a> by Tony Award winning talent), I couldn&#8217;t pass it up. Dark, romantic, and cutting with equal complexity across three eras of immigrant dreams with total ease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m absolutely thrilled that Gone to Amerikay has made the cut for Houghton Mifflin&#8217;s Best American Comics anthology this year. The only original work from DC or Marvel to do so, I might add. I&#8217;d known Colleen Doran through the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/joanhilty.net\/site\/?p=661\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bittergirl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joanhilty.net\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joanhilty.net\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joanhilty.net\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joanhilty.net\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joanhilty.net\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joanhilty.net\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joanhilty.net\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joanhilty.net\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joanhilty.net\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}